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Businesses Hiring More Freelancers

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No doubt not by coincidence, the company that sponsored this research - Elance  - recently announced a tool to help mid-sized companies do just that.  Elance's announcement came shortly after MBO Partners (an Emergent Research client) and Work Market announced a similar offering called The Managed Contractor Cloud.

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The Rise of Micro Multinationals

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  Upwork (formerly known as Elance-oDesk)  is featured in the report and it certainly is focusing on the creation of micro multinationals. .  If these sites even come close to creating $2.7 trillion in additional economic activity, the result would be a huge increase in the global number of micro multinationals.

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